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The United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) announced the contest for pupils and students“Think! Eat! Take care!”. Pupils and students of secondary and higher educational establishments from all over the world can participate in it.In order to participate in the contest pupils/studentsshould perform some events or execute a project that willsolve one of the following tasks:
• assessment of the amount of food wastes at their educational establishments and definition/understanding of their reasons;

The Third International Ecological Forum of St. Petersburg “Environment and human health: fundamental, clinical and ecological aspects of the modern microbiology” will be held on September 21-24 in St. Petersburg. Scientists from Russia, the CIS countries, the European Community, USA, Japan and other countries will participate in the work of the EcoForum-2014.

An investment offer of the Limited Liability Company “InterBusinessGroup Engineering” (Moscow) regarding construction of facilities for the processing of hadrocarbon-containing wastes, sludge composting fields, bird droppings and wastes of carton and paper manufacture was reviewed at the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan with participation of the representatives of the ministries and authorities of the Republic of Tatarstan.

A teleconference regarding commencement of the documents of the national accreditation system in the framework of the Federal Law “On accreditation in the national accreditation system” as of December 28, 2013 under No. 412 was held at the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan under the chairmanship of the Head of the Central specialized inspection for analytical control under the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of TatarstanAndrey Shibaev.

The International conference “Biodiversity and business: approaches and solutions” will be held on October 2 – 3rd, 2014 at the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation. The conference is aimed at the search of mechanisms for efficient interaction of government authorities, scientists from various countries and business with regard to inclusion of the matters regarding preservation of biodiversity into the processes of planning, arrangement and carrying out of economic activity in the field ofoil producing and coal industry, as well ashydraulic power industry.

The VIII International Ecological Forum “Nature without borders” will be held on October 23 – 24th, 2014 in Vladivostok.
Year after year the forum unites under its aegis famous scientific personae, representatives of public organizations from various countries. The main topic of the forum in 2014 — “Ecology and business: from opposition to mutual understanding”. Moreover,sectional meetings“Assurance of sustainable

The contest “School eco-patrol” is to start from September 1, 2014 in educational establishments of the Republic of Tatarstan. The event is aimed at engagement of pupils of the Republic in practical work regarding sanitary cleaning. The project was developed by the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Tatarstan, and it was presented today during the plenary sitting of the August meeting of the fellow workers in education and science fields that was held in the urban-type settlement Bogatye Saby.The idea of the contest lies in the fact that each pupil with a mobile phone would be able to register landfills during non-study time and send them to the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan through a filter of the call center of the Ministry of Communications of the Republic of Tatarstan, where statistics will be formed with regard to each pupil, class, school and municipality.The contest will be held during the whole school year.

The Ecological Saturday work campaign “Green Russia” will be held on August 30, 2014 on the territory of the Russian Federation. The event is aimed at improvement of the ecological state of Russian cities and regions. It is assumed that 83 Russian regions will participate in the campaign, including representatives of public organizations and movements, big, small and medium businesses that are not indifferent to the problems of environmental pollution.The event is arranged by the All-Russian ecological public movement “Green Russia” with the assistance of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation and the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage.In Tatarstan, the campaign will be held in every town and district of the Republic with the assistance of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan and the Department of the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage for the Republic of Tatarstan.

Today, experts of the Central Specialized inspection of analytical control carried out monitoring of the state of surface waters of the river Kazanka together with inspectors of the Central Territorial Department under the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan. The event is carried out in the framework of the High Diving World Cup that will be held in Kazan on August 8-10. Today, water samples were drawn with regard to 32 indicators.

The 3rd International Specialized Exposition of ecologically friendly, natural and organic products “EcoCityExpo Autumn 2014” will be held on November 21 – 23, 2014in Moscow.Within three days eco-products of Russian and foreign manufacturers will be presented in four sections:
- “EcoFood”–ecological products and drinks, healthy food, farming products;
- “EcoBeauty”–organic and natural products in the industry of beauty, makeup and fashion;